Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...victory marked the opening of the 1942 home grid season, and when the whistle blew ending the game with the Freshmen ahead 14-12, hopes for future varsity elevens brightened considerably. The Yardlings had outfought, outrun, and outplayed their opponents in a decisive fashion...
...Making. Principal business before the council was the Wagner Act. Having previously determined to amend it in some fashion, they debated just how far to go in rewriting a statute which has not worked out altogether to their benefit. Before the Supreme Court upheld the Act last year, said the council in its annual report, "the administration of the law by the National Labor Relations Board was, on the whole, just and proper. . . . Since the decisions ... the Board has abandoned whatever restraint it imposed upon itself . . . and has brazenly and by official acts declared itself a proponent...
...more opponent deserves special mention, right end Sullivan. He saw some service against Harvard last year and has developed fast since. He rushes in the same knife-like fashion that Brud Holland showed last week, and he is an all-round fellow, because he does the punting when Wilson is not in the game...
...Czechs, Jews and non-Nazi Sudetens such as Communists, Socialists and Social Democrats. Such outrages were not typical but exceptional, according to latest dispatches. The German army entered those parts of Czechoslovakia which it is to take over progressively by October 10 (see p. 75) in the same peaceful fashion as it entered Austria, was cheered last week by civilians...
...think you have realized the impossibility of my agreeing to put forward any plan unless I have reason to suppose it will be considered by public opinion in my country, in France, and indeed in the world generally, as carrying out the principles already agreed upon in an orderly fashion and free from the threat of force. . . . There must surely be alternatives to your proposal. ... I am faithfully, Neville Chamberlain...